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Ancient and modern

While shepherds watched, civilisation was born

If you want to understand the worlds of Homer and the Bible, you must start with farming

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

‘And lo, there were shepherds in the fields, watching over their flocks by night
 
Reading recently that it was the 25th anniversary of the invention of the world wide web, I reflected (yet again) on the difficulty of creating in any of our minds that sense of the world as experienced by the Greeks and Romans.

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